Apple praised Perplexity yesterday during its second-quarter 2026 earnings call, and now the company is offering more details on why it’s building its first Mac personal computer platform. Here are the details. The personal computer highlighted during Apple’s earnings call Last month, Perplexity announced Personal Computer, a Mac-native platform designed to run primarily on a Mac mini (although it can run on any Mac) and serve as a user’s personal assistant agent running in their on-premises and cloud environments. Here is Perplexity on a personal computer: The personal computer is the future of work. It brings multi-model orchestration to your…
Author: Scarlett Evans
9091086/Shutterstock In the UK, more people will now be able to access Pornhub again, as long as users can check their age on an iPhone. The website’s parent company, Aylo, announced that it is welcoming back “age-verified” iOS users after Apple launched a device-based age verification solution with iOS 26.4. Aylo explained in its update that it has been advocating for device-based age verification all along because it can protect people’s privacy and keep minors off adult platforms at the same time. Pornhub stopped giving new UK users full access…
Apple has released four recordings and a research summary from its 2026 workshop on privacy-preserving machine learning and AI. Here are the details. Apple releases ML videos and privacy workshop Apple has published a new post on its machine learning blog with four featured talks from its 2026 workshop on machine learning and privacy-preserving AI. During the two-day event, Apple researchers and members of the broader research community discussed the “latest in privacy-preserving ML and AI,” focusing on private learning and statistics, core models and privacy, and attacks and security. Here’s Apple at the event: Presentations and discussions at the…
Apple hasn’t given up on spatial computing, judging by its studies. Apple’s interest in AI models and their applications in spatial computing shows no signs of slowing down, even though some claim the Apple Vision Pro is dead.In April 2026, it was argued that the Apple Vision Pro was a complete failure and therefore we would never see a successor product. This rumor, although it always seemed unreasonable, has since been called into question.Although the company’s Vision Products group has seen some changes, there is ultimately hope for a new generation of Apple Vision Pro. Apple’s AI research suggests the…